Maternal mortality rises by almost 20% in UK, report finds | Girls’s well being
The variety of ladies dying in being pregnant or shortly after giving delivery within the UK has risen sharply, with proof of widening well being inequalities, a serious report has been discovered.
The report, MBRRACE Saving Lives, Bettering Moms’ Care, discovered that 229 ladies died throughout being pregnant or as much as six weeks after in 2018-20, a 19% improve in earlier years as soon as Covid deaths had been excluded. It additionally particulars the care of 289 ladies who had died as much as a 12 months after being pregnant in the identical interval.
Girls residing in essentially the